Founded in 1901 as one of the first publicly-funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in the capital, Whitechapel Gallery is a free gallery, located right next to Aldgate East tube station, …
Whitechapel Gallery – buzzing light bulbs and coffee Read More
It’s ruddy freezing outside and I’ve got a stinky cold, so praise be for the restorative powers of a hot lunch at the Phoenix followed by coffee at the Goodbench …
Coffee at Goodbench, Brixton Read More
We’re happy to tramp quite vast distances in our quest for great cafes and good coffee, and our trek out to the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn was rewarded by excellent beverages …
Bedford Hill Coffee Bar, Bedford-Stuyvesant, NYC Read More
Our favourite Brixton coffee shop – Federation Coffee – has just moved from its original intimate surroundings to a bigger unit, just a few metres from the original.
Federation Coffee, Brixton Village shimmies into a new shop Read More
You’ve got to give him points for effort here. A unicycling, guitar playing busker wearing rabbit ears sings it out loud outside KFC in central Brixton.
Brixton photos: a unicycling busker, street architecture and coffee Read More
For Brixton’s coffee cognoscenti and caffeine-quaffing connoisseurs of the coffee bean, there’s one truly unmissable place on London’s cafe map, and that’s Federation Coffee.
Federation Coffee, Brixton – London’s finest coffee? Read More
I love it when we stumble across a fine coffee in an unlikely place, and we definitely came up trumps on Saturday when we visited the Counter cafe in east …
The Counter cafe, Hackney Wick, E3 – another great London coffee house Read More
Caffeine freaks are getting very spoilt in Brixton, with another independent coffee shop opening up in SW9 this week.
The Goodbench – another independent Brixton coffee bar opens! Read More
The Photographers Gallery (now situated by Oxford Circus) has long been my favourite cafe in the West End. Here’s a photo of their cafe staff ready to load up the …
Coffee and cake Read MoreCoffee at the Photographers Gallery There’s an interesting exhibition on if you’re passing through. The London Fire Brigade Archive shows a curious selection of scenes from the 30s to the …
Coffee at the Photographers Gallery Read More
Coffee in the Lounge I’m currently relaxing on the deep leather sofa in The Lounge and giving this mo:Blog Palm blogging software its first ‘road test’. So far, its looking …
Coffee in the Lounge Brixton Read More
I recently visited Margate on the south coast of England to watch Dulwich Hamlet football club thump the home team 4-1. I also made sure I got there early enough …
In photos: Margate in the winter time – 65 photos of the seaside, shops and local architecture Read More
Last month, I paid a visit to Lancaster in Pennsylvania, a small city of some 58,000 souls surrounded by farmland. I was staying in New York and wanted to spend …
In photos: Lancaster, Pennsylvania – architecture, street scenes, pizza and a great bar Read More
This is easily one of the best exhibitions I’ve seen at the Photographers’ Gallery for some time, with plenty of interesting and thought provoking imagery demanding engagement, Taking over several …
Photographers’ Gallery, London: How to Win at Photography: Image-Making as Play – till 25th Sept 2022 Read More
Around 6.5k/4 miles in length, this is a lovely short walk along the banks of the River Thames from Putney Bridge to Barnes Bridge in south west London.
In photos: a short and easy London riverside walk – Putney Bridge to Barnes Bridge Read More
Although the lockdown is slowly easing in Wales, Cardiff remains strangely quiet with many of its once-bustling streets remaining empty. Here’s some photos from an (essential) trip earlier this week.
Cardiff in lockdown – stations, street photos and night scenes, July 2020 Read More
The ongoing coronavirus lockdown has reduced the once bustling centre of London into a ghost town, with almost all its shops, businesses, cafes and bars remaining closed for over two …
Deserted London: the empty streets of Soho, Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus, Chinatown and Trafalgar Square, June 2020 Read More
I was briefly in my home town of Cardiff yesterday – here’s some of the scenes I grabbed on my camera…
Cardiff photos: Christmas lights, street scenes, Rhiwbina station and scarf sellers, Nov 2019 Read More
In March this year, The Monochrome Set embarked on a breakneck USA tour, packing in nine gigs in ten days on both the East and West coasts of America. Merchmeister …
Tour diary – The Monochrome Set on the west coast of the USA Read More
It’s now changed out of all recognition with the legendary 12 Bar Club closing and several music stores moving out due to redevelopment, but this small road in central London …
London 15 years ago: Denmark Street, 12 Bar Club & The Astoria, Soho, London in April 2004 Read More
Earlier this month, I was with The Monochrome Set on a whistle-stop tour of the US, taking in no less than nine gigs and three radio sessions on both the …
Dispatches from the Monochrome Set’s USA tour, March 2019 Read More
Taken at the end of a chilly January, here’s a selection of photos taken around London’s West End.
A walk around the West End: street art, signs, galleries and a busking drummer – in photos, Jan 2019 Read More
Located in the tiny village of Petit-Fays, near Bièvre, in the south of the province of Namur in Belgium, the P’tit Faystival is one of the most unlikely places to stumble …
P’tit Faystival – where a tiny village in Belgium goes crazy for music, July 2018 Read More
I had the good fortune to be able to visit the grand city of Newcastle earlier this month, and although the trip was exceedingly short, I still managed to grab …
Newcastle photos: bridges, graffiti, bars, pigeon fanciers, night views and The Monochrome Set, April 2018 Read More
Here’s my second short collection of photos of the small border town of Chepstow in south east Wales, taken as I headed to and from the nearby Green Gathering festival.
Pubs, a chalky penis and pavement history: a look around the streets of Chepstow, south Wales Read More
After posting up a collection of night scenes, capturing a crap busker, documenting a great night out on the town and extolling the virtues of a local cafe, here’s my final set of …
Edinburgh in fifty photos: street scenes, architecture, landscapes and the famous castle Read More
You can’t beat a good, no-nonsense, affordable cafe, and I stumbled across a real gem when I was up in Edinburgh recently called The Snax Cafe – one of three …
Places I love: the cheap, cheerful and friendly Snax Cafe, Edinburgh Read More
Here’s a collection of photos taken from my trip up to Cardiff earlier this week. They’re nothing special – just a series of snapshots taken as I scuttled around town …
Frosty feet, market scenes, CCTV Santa and Chinese baubles: Cardiff photos, December 2016 Read More
Yesterday, I had to visit deepest, darkest Essex, with my day trip taking in Colchester and the nearby Island of Mersea. Here’s a selection of photos from my journey.
Fish & Chip Friday and Wednesday Toe Nails: Colchester and Mersea Island in photos Read More
I love Cardiff’s Roath Park. Built on a ‘malarial bog’, the park opened in 1894 and is dominated by a 30-acre lake formed by the damming of the Nant Fawr stream. A comfortable …
A sunny Autumnal afternoon at Roath Park, Cardiff – in photos Read More